nodded. “I see that you’re a first-level Fighter. Which makes it all the more - Daniel Suarez

Free people have a natural advantage on frontiers. Authoritarian subjects wait for permission, but free people take action and innovate. They can rapidly expand human presence in cislunar space — before totalitarian powers seize the L-points and hold them against us.

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat — and some smartass had sold them guns.